The Worth Of Huckleberry Finn

Part I of Essay
I feel that Huckleberry Finn is a valuable commentary on the habits of humanity during that era. Mark Twain set a high standard for future writers to follow, and at the same time made repeated condescending remarks about the way people, specifically southern adults, think. ....

Part II of Essay
.... which Twain drives toward in this point of the book is that people are basically sheep, a point reiterated later when a large group of people goes to lynch a man, and end up leaving quietly without doing anything. This summarizes the basic view Mark Twain held of the average southern person. Mark Twain demonstrated the way a child might think when Tom Sawyer started a band of outlaws in which everyone had to sign an oath in blood in the beginning of the book. In Tom's band of thieves we see a stubbornness in Tom whenever anyone ....